Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...think that a more delicate, graceful design for the proposed Memorial Chapel," said Professor K. J. Conant '15, of the School of Architecture, in an interview given to the CRIMSON yesterday, "would remove much of the hostility to the scheme which seems to exist. The present plan is perhaps a little too solid and heavy. Personally, I would be, glad to see a chapel erected somewhere along the lines of Independence Hall in Philadelphia...
...there is no doubt but that its failure to appear this year has been a distinct inconvenience, and has discovered a distinct need for its appearance next year. The Student Council, however, did not feel justified in hiring a non-graduate to put out the Register, for such a scheme has never met with success...
...will be particularly interesting," Professor Eisenhart said, "to watch the working of the Harvard plan to see how great a percentage of the students will play the game and permit the scheme to be worked out as it should be. If it succeeds in making the undergraduates learn how to study problems out for themselves, it will be excellent. If they merely evade it, however, by letting their tutors do their thinking for them, while they prepare for the examination during these recesses, the object of the plan will be defeated...
...certainly very questionable, according to present indications, whether a chapel would fulfill these requirements. There is an alternate scheme which would beyond question fulfill them. By endowing a number of international scholarships, named for the dead, Harvard would not only satisfy the requirements of the non-church as well as the churchman; she would honor her fallen in a noble and useful endeavor toward training men in the international point of view, in broad sympathies and understanding, so that the lives of young men might not again be sacrificed on the battlefield...
...that all military paraphernalia now possessed by Nicaraguans be handed over to a new constabulary, trained by and under the command of U. S. officers for ten years; 6) that all the foregoing considerations show that the arrangement Nicaragua desires, so far from forming part of an imperialistic scheme of U. S. aggrandizement in Central America, is nothing less than a highly humanitarian project sought by Nicaragua...